Fabulous news I heard on Rush's show today
Mueller in a bind.
Recall the indictments handed to those 13 Russians and 3 other entities that helped facilitate these Russian trolls?
We all know it was strictly a PR stunt by Mueller and Rosenstein. Up to that point Mueller had come up empty...not a shred of evidence of Russian/Trump collusion....and Mueller needed a spark
Mueller had calculated that the Russians would never answer these indictments, therefore he would never have to provide the "evidence"...but guess what?...one of those 3 entities, Concord Management did, and want their day in court!
So what did Mueller do?...he requested a postponement stating that the accused were not "properly served" LOL..
A judge (Trump appointed btw) told Mueller to go **** himself, request for delay denied.
Hear one of the best rants ever from the man himself.
On this grand announcement that Rosenstein made that Russian troll farms had interfered in the presidential election by buying ads on Facebook and Twitter and blah, blah, blah.
We know that the amount of money involved was inconsequential. We know that the impact that these ads had was inconsequential. Most of the ad buys occurred after the election. The Russians, like everybody, thought Hillary was gonna win. Most of the Russian activity was to destabilize whoever they think is gonna win the presidency; in this case, it was Hillary. They were not working to help Trump. Nobody thought Trump was gonna win. Mueller knows all of this, which is what grates on me.
So Mueller doesn’t have a shred of evidence, folks! Mueller doesn’t have a damn thing on collusion! Trump collusion, anybody with Trump collusion and Russia. They have got nothing. But does that stop Mueller? Does Mueller use his integrity and honor and say, “You know what? We’ve looked for a year. We’ve looked for a year and a half and we don’t find anything.” Does he shut it down? No. He comes up with a public relations move indicting 13 Russian troll farms and three Russian entities for attempting to interfere in the presidential election.
“He charged not only Russian individuals but three Russian businesses. A business doesn’t have the same risks as a person. A business can’t be thrown in jail.” So Mueller was never really trying to have a trial. He didn’t want to ever have to present evidence. He didn’t want to have to try to convict these people, ’cause he doesn’t have anything to convict them with. So he does this phony-baloney press conference with Rosenstein announcing these indictments of people he knows will never respond.
People (Russians) he knows will never appear.
Russia will not extradite them. Putin will not send them. There will never be… This is Mueller’s thinking. There will never be any action on this. So he’s got a pure one-way street here. He can indict these guys and he can announce they’ve done anything, and they aren’t gonna do anything about it. And the press conference serves as a gigantic PR move to further this lie that Trump and Russia colluded! Somebody with the highest integrity and honor does not do this kind of stuff, and that’s what we’ve been told Mueller is: The epitome of integrity and the epitome of honor.
Well, the Russians in this case are not stupid. And one of these three entities that Mueller indicted is an outfit by the name of Concord Management — to be precise, Concord Management and Consulting — and they have decided they don’t like being slandered. They don’t like being accused of things like tampering with a presidential election via ad buys they made on Twitter and Facebook, and “wants its day in court.” And they went out and hired a law firm in Washington.
The law firm they hired is “Reed Smith, two of whose partners, Eric Dubelier and Katherine Seikaly, have told Mueller that Concord is ready to have its trial — and by the way, let’s see” what you have on our clients. We’re demanding discovery. You have sued, you have indicted us; we want to go to trial to defend ourselves. And we, therefore, need to see what you have, and the law requires that you disclose it to us, including “all the [evidence] the law requires you to disclose, including all the evidence you say supports the [silly] allegations in the indictment” of yours that we interfered in the presidential election.
Well, this is the last thing Mueller expected to happen. These people were not supposed to respond at all. They’re not in any legal jeopardy because there’s never gonna be a trial, in Mueller’s opinion. They’re in Russia. They’re in Ukraine. They’re not gonna show up. Mueller’s thinking is, “This is a freebie!” He gets to announce these arrests and these indictments — well, these indictments, not arrests — as a freebie ’cause nobody’s gonna oppose him. Well, this one firm, Concord Management and Consulting, did.
So the Mueller team immediately seeks a delay, a postponement. And the way they did it was to suggest that Concord Management and Consulting “had not been properly served.” Had not been properly served? You’ve got the defendant already hiring a law firm, ready to show up in court, and Mueller is saying they haven’t been properly served so he needs a delay? Look, “service” is simply the means by which a party seeks what Mueller already has: The opposing party’s appearance in a lawsuit. Serving them with a suit to get them to show up.
Well, they don’t need to be served. They’re here! They’re ready to have a trial. They want to start their trial tomorrow. So Mueller’s argument for delay is preposterous. “In order to serve the defendants in a criminal case in which Mueller alleges that Russia is an adversary government that conducted espionage operations against the American election, the Justice Department sought the assistance of … the government of Russia,” and they haven’t helped.
That’s actually what Mueller told the court! (paraphrased) “We asked the government of Russia to help us serve Concord Management, and they have not helped.” Sorry, Concord Management’s hired lawyers, and they’re ready to go to court tomorrow. The judge told Mueller essentially to pound sand. He denied the postponement. The judge is Dabney Friedrich. Denied Mueller’s request. “Mueller’s prosecutors had suggested that weeks of briefing were necessary to probe the question of whether Concord had been served properly.”
Yet Concord is here. They’ve hired lawyers. They don’t need to be served. They, A, already accepted it, because they showed up. So what have we been told about this man, Mueller? For as long as I’ve heard the name “Robert Mueller” — and I don’t know when I first heard it, but it’s many years ago — I’ve heard that he is the epitome of integrity in Washington. That if ever there is a man who is above the fray in political Washington, it’s Robert Mueller. That he has integrity, more integrity in his little finger than all of Washington has in two hands.
The never-ending praise and accolades for the fairness, the open-mindedness, the nonjudgmentalism, the integrity and the honor of Robert Mueller has been his hallmark that has been his reputation for as long as he’s been in Washington. As either the FBI director, assistant attorney general — he’s served a number of presidents in a number of positions — his reputation is impeccable. And if you ask me, none of it’s true, and none of it is warranted.
To me, this guy, Robert Mueller, personifies actually what is wrong with the Washington establishment, not what is right about it. No more integrity than this guy has. More honor than anybody else. I mean, he’s the personification of Dudley Do-Right. If Robert Mueller were this honorable person — the right choice to get to the bottom of this for the sake of the nation, for the sake of our culture, for the sake of doing the right thing — then he would have shut down this investigation long ago and lectured everybody about the improprieties and dangers involved in all of this.
He would have exposed the conspiracy and the corruption in the FBI that prolonged this, and he would have named names. He would have properly looked into real collusion between Fusion GPS, the Hillary Clinton campaign, the Democrat National Committee and the Russians and Christopher Steele. He would have exposed it! He would have been the one to tell us that the Steele dossier was fake, phony, and fraudulent. He would have been the one to tell us that the Steele dossier had been illegally used to get a FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page and whoever else that the Obama team wanted to spy on.
He would have been the one to expose all of this, if he were the guy we’ve been told that he is. But he’s obviously not. He’s right in there with the rest of these partisan buffoons helping to perpetuate this crock, helping to perpetuate this injustice. And if this is the guy… If this is the guy we’re all told, “Trust it, Rush! Trust Mueller. He’s the guy to get to the bottom of this. He’ll find out what’s been going on. He’s got no partisan chip in his bones. Yeah, he’s a registered Republican, but that doesn’t matter.”
And then of course we find out that in the Whitey Bulger case, four people — innocent people — spent 30 years in jail when he knew they didn’t do it. Two of them died in jail! And one of the reasons was so he could protect the identity of a confidential informant. There isn’t any integrity here, and there isn’t any honor, and it doesn’t appear there’s any justice going on. So now we see that Rudy says that Mueller’s team shouts down the idea of written interviews with Trump.
Well, okay. Thank you, Mr. Mueller. Because now you’re telling us you don’t give a rat’s rear end about any evidence. You’re not really trying to learn what people think. You’re not trying to collect information and render a proper judgment after an extensive, fair investigation. You want the opportunity to lay a perjury trap for the president of the United States. That can be the only reason to reject writtens. Now, I fully expect the left to say, “No, t here’s other reasons, Rush. Uh, sometimes written just doesn’t do it and other presidents have appeared.”
